Agriculture

Agriculture The district specializes in the production of milk, meat, grain, potato, sugar beet and flax. The district boasts 16 agricultural companies and 50 farms. The personnel in the agricultural sector makes up 3,400 people, of them 375 are managers and specialists. The farmland is 73572 hectares, including 48824 hectares of arable land. Agricultural companies own 67195 hectares of farmland, with 40398 hectares of them being arable land. Qualitative assessment of farmland is 32.1 points, that of arable land – 34.3 points.